When you want to watch your favorite movie online without waiting for the movie to load for several minutes and without annoying buffering, a cached torrent is what you need. We use cached torrents in conjunction with premium services like Real Debrid. Every Kodi add-on with Real Debrid integration can benefit from this functionality for superb streaming.
What is a torrent?
Torrent is a popular file-sharing network widely used by many users worldwide to access content with endless amounts. This network is based on a decentralized peer-to-peer protocol, so when you download a file, its pieces are retrieved from different computers and combined into a single file. When using torrents, users face several threats related to privacy and security, so we recommend reading our torrent protection guide.
What is a cached torrent?
While uncached torrent content is stored locally on different computers, cached torrent content is stored and organized on the Real Debrid servers. We download it when needed, which speeds up the process significantly.
Advantages of cached torrents
Better performance
Because the Real Debrid servers have already stored the selected file, you won’t have to wait to download it, but you will get it instantly. Also, the streaming quality will be much better as you won’t face any buffering issues.
Protect your privacy
Unlike the regular torrent process, you don’t need to share your connection with other users while downloading a file, as you find your selected content on the Real Debrid servers. Also, storing the file on your local device may result in copyright infringement claims by your ISP, which will not happen with Real Debrid.
Using cached torrents on Kodi
As mentioned, you need a Real Debrid account to get torrent links (both cached and uncached). Follow our tutorial here to set up Real Debrid on Kodi. After completing the setup, you can use an add-on to watch movies and TV shows by choosing one of the Real Debrid links.
Some add-ons have a setting related to cached torrents. For the The Crew add-on, under ResolveURL > Universal Resolvers, we have the setting Cached torrents only. For the Umbrella add-on, under Sorting and Filters > Source Filtering Options, we have the setting Remove uncached torrents.
When removing uncached torrents, you may not find the content you are looking for.
Cached torrents are an excellent way to improve your streaming experience, so we highly recommend using them.